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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year did Terry Eagleton's "Literary Theory: An Introduction" first appear?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1993.
(d) 1983.

2. According to Eagleton, "In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the word ______seems to have been used about true and fictional events."
(a) Memoir.
(b) News.
(c) Novel.
(d) Theory.

3. What proposes a "severe problem" for Husserl's theory?
(a) Consciousness.
(b) Language.
(c) Truth.
(d) Individuality.

4. From the viewpoint of Roland Barthes, Eagleton argues that "reading is less like a _______ than a _________."
(a) "Philosophy; laboratory."
(b) "Boudoir; laboratory."
(c) "Boudoir; system."
(d) "Laboratory; boudoir."

5. Eagleton argues that for Stanley Fish, what a text "does" to us is a matter of what we do to what?
(a) To the text.
(b) To the reader.
(c) To the author.
(d) To the critic.

6. Who silenced the Russian formalists, according to Eagleton?
(a) Bolsheviks.
(b) Liberals.
(c) Stalinists.
(d) Socialists.

7. According to Eagleton, Stanley Fish's model excludes the possibility that there is a ______ of interpretations?
(a) Struggle.
(b) Rejection.
(c) Dominance.
(d) Acceptance.

8. What genre of writing does Eagleton provide that is an example of writing that is NOT considered to be literature?
(a) Romance.
(b) Science fiction.
(c) Comics.
(d) Young Adult.

9. According to Eagleton, William Empson "insists on treating poetry as a species of ______language."
(a) Ordinary.
(b) Secular.
(c) Spectacular.
(d) Religious.

10. Eagleton's goal in "Literary Theory: An Introduction" is to provide a comprehensive account of literary theory for whom?
(a) Those with little knowledge of literary theory.
(b) Those who have specialised knowledge of literary theory.
(c) Those with extensive knowledge of literary theory.
(d) Those who have some knowledge of literary theory.

11. What is the name of the American hermeneuticist E.D. Hirsch Jr.'s famous 1967 book?
(a) "Being and Time."
(b) "Truth and Fact."
(c) "Validity in Interpretation."
(d) "Meaning or Method."

12. How many decades, according to Eagleton, has there been a "striking proliferation of literary theory" since the publication of the Russian formalist's pioneering essay?
(a) Five.
(b) Six.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

13. According to Eagleton, the subject in phenomenology was the source of all what?
(a) Life.
(b) Oppression.
(c) Meaning.
(d) Violence.

14. According to Eagleton, what becomes the "panacea for all problems" as part of the romantics' aesthetic theory at the turn of the eighteenth century?
(a) The word.
(b) The image.
(c) The symbol.
(d) The text.

15. According to Eagleton, the sentence "this is awfully squiggly handwriting" from Knut Hamsun's "Hunger" tells him its literary because of what reason?
(a) The ideas.
(b) The facts.
(c) The content.
(d) The context.

Short Answer Questions

1. For the economist Eagleton discusses, "those economists who dislike theory or claimed to get along better without it" were what?

2. Who is the key figure in the Victorian period Eagleton cites as "preternaturally aware of the needs of his social class"?

3. What three sequential stages does Eagleton point out in the development of modern literary theory?

4. What kind of analysis is phenomenology, according to Eagleton?

5. According to Eagleton, "in the terminology of reception theory, the reader _________ the literary work, which is in itself no more than a chain of organized black marks on a page."

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